Research
Legal Theory
Philosophy and the Law
Education
LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1957
M.A., Yale University, 1956
B.A., Oxford University, 1955
B.A., Harvard College, 1953
Appointments
Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London, 1998
Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, 1994
Professor of Law, 1975
Other Appointments
Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow, University College, Oxford, 1969
Holhfeld Professor, Yale Law School, 1968
Professor of Law, Yale Law School, 1965
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School, 1962
Awards, Distinctions and Honorary Degrees
Holberg Memorial Prize in the Humanities, Kingdom of Norway, 2007
Nicolas Luhmann Prize in the Sciences, University of Bielefeld, 2006
Friendly Medal, Practicing Law Institute, 2006
Jefferson Medal, University of Virginia, 2006
Co-Chairman, Democratic Party Abroad,
Member, Council of Writers and Scholars Educational Trust,
Member, Index on Censorship,
Member, Programme Committee of the Ditchley Foundation,
Consultant on Human Rights, Ford Foundation.
Publications
-Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (Harvard University Press, 2000)
-Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Harvard University Press, 1986; Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1997)
-Life’s Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993)
-Law’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 1986)
-A Matter of Principle (Harvard University Press, 1985)
